According to data released by Education Week, America’s government-run schools lost almost 1.3 million students this year. (Delaware, Illinois, and North Carolina didn’t supply enrollment statistics, so the true number is probably somewhat higher.)

While undoubtedly some of the “missing” kids will return when schools open their doors in August and September, to be sure many will not. And for those who don’t, increasing numbers will have more choices than ever.

Those choices portend an end to teachers union bullies and toady school boards controlling our kids’ education.

The immediate answer is: We just don't know.  The Founding Fathers did not write up a "what if" in the Constitution to make things right.  The Founding Fathers wrote up nothing in the Constitution in case mail-in ballots or the internet were used to manipulate the vote.

The scary part is that since the answer to possible election fraud appears not to be in the Constitution, nor in federal law, nor in federal court cases, then the answer-the remedy will come from somewhere else. That somewhere else, we know not.  But probably not from the words within the US Constitution.

So much of this is conjecture.  Let’s start with what we do know.

Joe is worried about the Delta variant of Covid.  His health experts tell him it’s more transmissible than the original.  Yet he continues to encourage a flood of illegal untested aliens across our southern border.

If Delta is not dangerous, he has an excuse on the border.  If it is, he doesn’t.  He can’t have it both ways.  But then, having it both ways is what Democrats always demand.

Our best minds have spoken

Why is no connection being made between a massive vaccination program intended to reduce or prevent the spread of infections and the fact that cases are said to be skyrocketing. The vaccines are extravagantly touted as reliable antitoxins; at the same time the disease apparently continues to surf from wave to wave and variant to variant.

Because beneath the veneer of civilization, in essence we are as primitive and credulous as our stone age ancestors. Magic, not reason, remains the psychological default.

Amulets and incantations will keep us safe, and the practice of exorcism will banish the evil spirit that has possessed us.  We are in thrall to the Vaccine Voodoo Cult.

This Fourth of July holiday was a time to pause and ask ourselves how we collectively lost our minds over the last 15 months—and are we yet regaining any semblance of our sanity?

To answer, let’s discuss in turn how to go to the chaos of daily living, followed by the madness of Biden policies and politics, and lastly, the joy of our foreign enemies over our madness.

There could be no better place to celebrate America’s independence than beneath this magnificent, incredible majestic mountain monument to the greatest Americans who have ever lived.

Today we pay tribute to the exceptional lives and extraordinary legacies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt.

We gather tonight to herald the most important day in the history of nations, July 4th, 1776.

Russia and China are typically lumped together as the two new challengers to the role of Western countries in Africa. They are certainly that, but they are pursuing rather differing strategies and, thus, are virtually certain to find themselves at odds in the future.

For the present, these two approaches may not be completely at odds; however, in the longer term, they are prone to be, with Russia having to accept a role subordinate to China in Africa or give up its current relationships with African countries.

That is not something President Vladimir Putin is likely to be happy about and may even become an increasing source of conflict between Moscow and Beijing.

It’s shaping up to be a long, hot summer, one filled -- like Yellowstone Park -- with geysers and hot springs ready to blow at any moment. But these are political eruptions, not nature's fury.

If I didn’t know that God has things under control I’d be terrified, but in the interest of keeping track of the truth let’s list the top 10 political eruptions we can expect to blow sometime soon.  We’ll from 10 down to Number 1.  So let’s start with…

What Lee Ermey thinks of Mark Milley

[Note by Jack Wheeler: I have known Mike Waller for over 30 years.  What he has written here is the clearest exposé of the essence of Wokeism, and how we save our military from it.  Please consider sending this to all you know.]

Wokeness might do to the American military what no foreign enemy ever could: Fracture the world’s greatest armed forces from within, through divisive political indoctrination and controls.

Wokeness itself isn’t an ideology, however. It isn’t critical race theory. It’s a behavioral system of dictatorial political and cultural control.

This is the wokeness that General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denies he is imposing throughout our armed forces.

Mitt Romney prides himself on being a thorn in President Trump's side, but he is just a gnat buzzing about the Leftmedia that now revere him.  He's become a joke but has yet to realize it.

Romney wins the prize among the pathetic group of RINOS who think they can vanquish Trump by treating him and his supporters like pond scum.  The problem with the Left and the RINOS is that they assume, with no hint of irony, that they are smart and the rest of us are not.

Actually, it is they who are blinkered to the point of blindness. Romney is the saddest of the lot, as he demonstrated on CNN day before yesterday (6/27).

There can be little doubt the United States is now in a contest with China over which will be the most important country in the world.

In important respects, we are replicating the German challenge to England prior to World War I and the renewed German challenge of the 1930s, or the Soviet challenge for 45 years after World War II.

As China grows stronger and bolder, and especially as the United States fumbles its way through periods of great distraction and internal political strife, the Chinese—like Hitler—become more brazen and provoking.  Time is short to do something smart about it.

Woke BLM ladies are so oppressed

There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of 2020.

Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. Instead, for some, it illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one’s own concrete prejudices onto others in order to alleviate or mask them.

Joe Biden about every two weeks lectures America on its racism. And he unleashed the bureaucracies of the federal government to root out mythical white supremacist conspiracies.

No Washington politico has compiled a longer record of racialist put downs than Joe Biden. So apparently, the more Biden hunts for a white racist under every bed, the less necessary it becomes to look in his own mirror.

[Note:  Vivek Ramaswamy is an American-born self-made biotech billionaire at age 35. What this  American patriot has to say is true must-read.]

I used to think corporate bureaucracy was bad because it’s inefficient. That’s true, but it’s not the biggest problem.

Rather, there’s a new invisible force at work in the highest ranks of corporate America, one far more nefarious. It’s the defining scam of our time — one that robs you of not only your money, but your voice and your identity.

Here’s how it works: Pretend like you care about something other than profit and power, precisely to gain more of each.  All great magicians master the art of distraction — flashing lights, smoke, beautiful women on stage. Today’s captains of industry do it by promoting progressive social values.

Lenin’s 1902 pamphlet

“What is to be done?” That’s been the cry of revolutionaries from time immemorial: the malcontents, the aggrieved, the misfits, the morally wretched.

As we sit here, six months into the disastrous Biden administration, the question is finally becoming evident to even the most politically disinterested American.

The very fact that you still must wear a slave muzzle to enter a federal building is a visible sign of your continuing humiliation and subjugation.  Proof once more that tyranny is about insisting that you conform to the most picayune and counter-factual ukases, just to illustrate your powerlessness.

So, what is to be done?

As a candidate, Joe Biden’s number one promise was to “unite” America. Yet in his first months as president, his number one priority has been to divide our country by race and gender at every turn.

There is no clearer example than the Biden administration’s new effort aimed at indoctrinating America’s schoolchildren with some of the most toxic and anti-American theories ever conceived.

It is vital for Americans to understand what this initiative would do, what drives it and, most importantly, how we can stop it.  Below is my 7-step plan to rid our schools of what is psychological abuse of our children.

Sailing off the edge of sanity

For the past year and a half of COVID, we have been told by those supposedly in the know, to “follow the science.”  Those who question the science are at best called names, like “deniers” or “racists”, and at worst, lose their jobs and reputations, and are banned from social media.

Last year’s outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus allowed the world to travel back in time to an age where sailors feared sailing off the edge of the world into a pit of monsters or nothingness.

How did we get to such a place where science can’t be questioned, at least science deemed incontrovertible by the government and media?

Here is why the “Joe Biden” regime only has a few months to live: it is caught in a squeeze between some of the greatest lies in world history, and they’re all unraveling now.

Anyway, “Joe Biden” is not really functioning as president of the US; he’s just the doddering, photo-op front-man for a kind of politburo centered around Barack Obama, and that group lives in terror of being found-out, which it will be, despite its capture of the traditional news and social media.

Big Lie No. 1 is actually a whole bundle of lies surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.”

Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution

Last week, five Republican senators sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding his office’s handling of January 6 protesters.

The letter revealed the senators are aware that several Capitol defendants charged with mostly nonviolent crimes are being held in solitary confinement conditions in a D.C. jail used exclusively to house Capitol detainees.

It is important to emphasize that the accused have languished for months in prison before their trials even have begun, in obvious blatant violation of the 6th Amendment.  I have been receiving letters from them or their families. Here are some. They will break your heart. This is America??

Kamala Harris' problem isn't race or gender.

True, those are the two excuses that she and her supporters have brought out to explain everything from her humiliating failure in the primaries to her humiliating failure on the world stage during her big international trip.

But no one is buying either of them.  The fact is, aside from her self-inflicted problems, and there are many of those, Kamala has no constituency.  She’s the girl everyone hates.

A basic premise of the American system, going all the way back to the Founding Fathers, was an educated population.

People weren't expected to be scholars.  However, the Founders required a literate and moral population to make their great government experiment work.  And that is what they got – while that is what we haven’t.

Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it.

Yet most of these silly revolutionaries were not unhinged Weathermen killers or SDS would-be Communists, but just adolescents along for the good-time ride. The ’60s were at heart a narcissistic free-for-all when “freedom” just meant self-indulgence and avoiding responsibility.

But today, a half-century after the 60s, this time around their offspring’s left-wing assault is different—and vastly more ominous.  Let’s itemize the ways they are turning the American Dream into a dystopian Nightmare.

Good luck, Vlad! You’re going to get rolled…

Known as the “Pivot to Asia” and informally announced by Vladimir Putin in early 2012, Russia’s strategic (re)orientation to the Asian markets and China, in particular, seems to be failing to work as planned (Mn.ru, February 27, 2012).

New evidence, broken down into five categories, points to multiple flaws in Moscow’s strategy.

First, some profoundly negative trends persist in the realm of foreign direct investments (FDI). The most recent data suggest that the Russian economy is experiencing a massive outflow of Chinese investors.

There’re four more to go…

On June 6, 1944, the United States and its British and Canadian allies launched a long-awaited invasion of the northern European mainland, landing on five German-held beaches in Normandy. The invasion came just two days after U.S. troops liberated Rome and nearly four years to the day after the British had fled the continent from Dunkirk.

At last, the Allies were on the offensive—and, less than a year later, Adolf Hitler killed himself in his bunker in a Soviet-besieged Berlin and the war in Europe was over.

So in the Spirit of D-Day, it’s time to man up and fight – this time against the enemies inside our gates determined to destroy America.

Dana Stangel-Plowe

[Yesterday (6/08), a respected and popular English teacher resigned from the faculty of Dwight-Englewood School, an elite college-prep school in New Jersey, costing from $30,000 for pre-school (ages 3 & 4) to $52,000 from Grade 6-12.  This is her letter in rebellion against the school’s poisoning her students’ minds with the anti-white racism of Critical Race Theory.  It is a terrifying condemnation of what is being done to an entire generation of America’s youth across America.]

LETTER OF RESIGNATION Englewood, New Jersey June 8, 2021

Dear Joe [Algrant, Upper School Principal] (copies to Head of School, Board Trustees, & English Department Colleagues),

I became a teacher at Dwight-Englewood because, as a parent, I loved how the school both nurtured and challenged my own children. Today, I am resigning from a job I love because D-E has changed in ways that undermine its mission and prevent me from holding true to my conscience as an educator.

Senator Joe Manchin D-WV

[The entire Woke Left, Democrat Party elite, and their media lapdogs are today in a collective state of apoplectic rage over this announcement of Democrat Senator Manchin of West Virginia, published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail on Sunday (6/06). Note that HR1 has passed the House with zero GOP votes and is now up for a vote in the Senate.] 

The right to vote is fundamental to our American democracy and protecting that right should not be about party or politics. Least of all, protecting this right, which is a value I share, should never be done in a partisan manner.

Throughout my tenure in politics, I have been guided by this simple philosophy — our party labels can’t prevent us from doing what is right.

Unfortunately, we now are witnessing that the fundamental right to vote has itself become overtly politicized.

Think about it: For about five years, anything candidate, president-elect, and President Trump said or did, the media, the Left, and progressive popular culture opposed in Pavlovian fashion.

The result?  In the Left’s uncontrolled aversion and detestation, they suspended all the rules of empiricism, logic, and rationality—and hundreds of thousands of Americans died as a result.

Just as pathological, they don’t care at all. They have no remorse whatever.

None of them are “White” – All of them are European-Americans

Twenty twenty-one is the year for canceling back.

Canceling back, as I practice the art, is not about retribution.  It is about either strengthening or eliminating connections by asserting the highest truth I can perceive and requiring my viewpoints based on that truth to be respected in the relationship.

Now I am embarking on a multidimensional project to cancel back the word "white," because today it is a term of racist abuse.  It dehumanizes by obviating the historic religio-cultural diversity and connections to ancestral homelands of people who are reduced to the color label "white."

After being lionized in the press, and drawing in tens of millions of dollars from giant corporations desperate to prove their bona fides to its racial-grievance bandwagon, Black Lives Matter seems to be falling apart.

That's a pretty reasonable conclusion to reach, given there don't seem to be any positive stories about the group coming out in the press anymore.

They're all tales of scandal, corruption, and exploitation, not surprising in an organization that's been flooded with such a tidal wave of money and run by "trained Marxists."  There are a lot of these stories.

Chinese girl symbolizing “lying flat”

Young people in mainland China are adopting a growing movement called 躺平 (tang ping), which literally translates to lie flat, or “lie flat.”

The lie-flat movement advocates against mainstream traditional aspirations such as work, career, marriage, friendships, child raising, and consumerism.

Shades of LSD-advocate Timothy Leary’s advice to America’s hippies in the 1960s: “Turn on, tune in, drop out” – right?   Not quite – for this is a rebellion against the most ruthlessly fascist government on the face of this earth today.

An ostracon used to ostracize someone in ancient Athens

If you voted for Trump, or even were suspected of such, has at least one of the following things happened to you?

*A once close associate (or was it a grandson, uncle, cousin, or in-law?), perhaps even one of your once best friends, suddenly, out the blue, with no warning, texts, calls, emails or writes you a cancel letter.

*There are certain things you did out of rote but had insidiously been tapering off. Yet suddenly, you inexplicably just quit cold turkey. The NBA became boring, then the NFL. And now MLB is too.

*You become vaguely aware that you have not been to a movie theater since 2015, and haven’t watched a Grammy, Emmy, Tony, or Oscar ceremony in …when exactly?

Many fatalists see America in decline and China ascendant.  China's dictator, Xi Jinping, agrees in public.

But beneath the shiny new infrastructure, the amazing economic growth and competitiveness, China faces a reckoning, just as it prepares to mark a century of its Communist Party (founded July 23-31, 1921).

China’s internal economic and political woes continue to grow, as it is rapidly becoming regarded internationally as the world’s pariah.  Xi may be ruining China faster than Biden is America.

Anti-Putin protest in Prague, Czechia – April 2021

Over the past couple months, Russia and the West (the European Union and the United States) have mutually expelled more than 150 diplomats—high numbers in quick succession that, some observers argue, “did not even happen during the Cold War” (Newsru.com, April 24).

From the European Union, the Czech Republic (Czechia), Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, and Bulgaria as well as EU candidate North Macedonia all became participants of this diplomatic war with Russia.

As you can see above, revulsion towards Putin’s Russia is expressed on European streets as well.